Management and structure

José Andrés Torres Mora is CEO of Acción Cultural Española.
presidencia@accioncultural.es

Doctor of Sociology. Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid. During the legislatures VIII, IX, X, XI and XII, he was a deputy for Malaga in the Congress of Deputies.
President of the Education Commission, Vice President of the Constitutional Commission and Spokesman of the Committee on Culture of the Congress of Deputies. He was also a Member of the Subcommittee for the elaboration of a Statute of the Artist and Speaker of the Bill of Intellectual Property.
Between 1997-2000, he served as director of San Juan Evangelista University College and is the author of two books, and numerous academic and opinion articles.

Juan Luis Gordo Pérez is Chief Financial Officer at Acción Cultural Española.
dirfinanciera@accioncultural.es

Industrial Engineer, specialized in the organization area, has been linked to the Public Function since 1986 as a Senior Management Technician. He has held various management positions in the State health network in different hospitals in Madrid, such as the Hospital “12 de Octubre”, Hospital Clínico or Severo Ochoa. He has also been Deputy Director General for Economic and Personnel of the Insalud and Deputy Director General for Healthcare of the National Institute of Health Management.

Between 2000 and 2004 he was deputy delegate of the Government in the province of Segovia. During the 9th legislature he was elected senator for Segovia; and in the 10th, 11th and 12th legislatures, a national deputy for the same constituency. In Congress he has held the position of Second Secretary of the Board in the 12th legislature, and that of spokesman for Development, spokesperson for the RTVE Commission and vice spokesperson for the Commission of the Court of Accounts throughout the various legislatures.

Between 1995 and 2004 he has been linked to the Carlos III University of Madrid as an associate professor at the Polytechnic School in the area of ​​Mechanical Engineering.

Gabriel Planella es director de Programación de Acción Cultural Española.
dirprogramacion@accioncultural.es

Born in Olot (Girona), Gabriel Planella is a cultural manager and writer. He has a degree in Philosophy and Letters, Hispanic-Catalan Philology division, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he also studied journalism. He has spent a good part of his professional career in administration.

He has also held other responsibilities, including: advisory member in the Cabinet of the Secretary General, in the Ministry of Culture and Sports, between 2021 and 2023; technical secretary in the Delegation of the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia in Madrid, of whose cultural center Blanquerna was also executive responsible for cultural content, from 2016 to 2018; and General Deputy Director of Books and Libraries, between 2003 and 2007, in the same regional administration.

Likewise, in cultural management, it is worth mentioning the direction of the Barcelona International Poetry Festival, in the 2002 to 2004 editions, organized by the Barcelona City Council, and the curator of several exhibitions, among others Puerta Abierta al Dreamtime: Arte Aborigen Contemporáneo de Australia, commissioned by the Caixa Girona and Caixa Terrassa foundations, in the same period.

In the journalistic and literary spheres, he has been a freelance correspondent in Australia and New Zealand for the newspaper "El País" (1999-2002) and, previously, he has co-directed the literature magazine "Lletra de canvi" (Editorial Montesinos), has collaborated in “Quimera” and in the book section of the newspapers “ABC” and “Avui”. He has published various collections of poems and translations of works by English-language authors into Catalan and Spanish.

Pilar Gómez Gutiérrez is Director of Production at Acción Cultural Española.
dirproduccion@accioncultural.es

She studied French at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. A cultural management professional with more than 30 years’ experience, she began her career in 1982 as a manager of major theatres such as the Lara de Madrid. She combined this activity with what would be her profession for many years, being in charge of producing different stagings and tours under the direction of Manuel Canseco, José Osuna, Miguel Narros and Emilio Hernández, among others, for successive editions of the Veranos de la Villa programme of summer events and the Almagro, Sagunto and Mérida festivals.
          
In 1988 she set up her own company, producing cultural projects and events of different kinds, such as general meetings of financial and business institutions. After becoming director of Production of the International Festival of Mérida in 1990, she worked on different independent productions, prominent among which was La Fiesta Barroca, organised as part of the Madrid Capital of Culture events. In 1995 she was appointed Director of Production of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, directed by Adolfo Marsillach.
          
In 2005, after serving in the Department of Culture of the regional government of Castile-La Mancha, she joined the Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior, S.A., SEACEX, occupying the post of Director of Projects and Coordination until the merger and creation in December 2010 of the current Sociedad Estatal de Acción Cultural.